PICKPOCKETS ON MAIN TRUNK.
• —* «• A traveller by the Main Trunk warns people to be veiy .careful oi pickpockets during bu-y times such as • we had this toaster (says tile Auckland star,). He say* he was standing in the j refresh incut rooms at ikankton when a j man who had just put hi- purse back I in his pocket after getting change fell J someone at his pocket. Tea was spil- • led, there was a scuiiie, but in the excitement the pickpocket got away, and j when the police came in answer to a ‘ call there was no sign of anyone likely 1 ito be implicated. The traveller recalls * i that last Christinas twelve months there was a gang of spielers evidently work- ■ ing the train in the Waikato and Tara- | Iraki, aml he wonders if it is not the same men at work again.
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Otaki Mail, 11 April 1923, Page 4
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